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- We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan…
- Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
- Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners.…
- We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are looking…
- It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.
- The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who…
- Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.
- Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the…
- We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
- Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.
- I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the…
- At the same time I think it is absolutely necessary that there be no confusion, no misunderstanding that if the Iraqis.. do not comply, then…
- Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence…
- Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I…
- My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out…
- I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity…
- It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry,…
- Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have,…
- Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and…
- In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection…
- The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
- We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan…
- There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them, success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to…
- There is no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them, success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster